Growing up, I was obsessed with gaming, spending hours on my pink 3DS and later sinking endless time into Minecraft. Around 12, I started teaching myself how to modify the game, tinkering with scripts on my laptop to build my own custom tools. Seeing my interest, my mom signed me up for coding classes where I learned Python, Unity, and web dev.

But while gaming and coding gave me a playground to create, I realized I wanted to build for people. What actually stuck was using that technical foundation to design meaningful products that people can see, feel, and interact with.